Beyond distribution and proximity: Exploring the multiple spatialities of environmental justice

Spaces of Environmental Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 24-46

  Walker, Gordon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributional understandings of justice unequal distribution of impacts, distribution of responsibilities and spatialities; Environmental justice, as matter of socio spatial maldistribution; Environmental justice, as political discursive frame and focus of academic study; Geographies of distribution and inequality; Geographies of recognition and participation; Multiple spatialities of environmental justice beyond distribution and proximity; Spatial, intertwined with pluralised understanding scope and meaning of environmental justice; Spatiality of environmental justice analysis within socio environmental and political contexts.; Substantive and theoretical pluralism for geographical inquiry and analysis; Ways environmental justice and geography, being co constituted a multidimensional understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960485943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322767.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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